diff --git a/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/pom.xml b/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/pom.xml
index 12b3da96..64acc2c5 100644
--- a/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/pom.xml
+++ b/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
 		</dependency>
 		-->
 		<!-- end uncomment -->
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.11</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
 	<build>
diff --git a/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/main/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilter.java b/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/main/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilter.java
index 01f4d575..1889cc91 100644
--- a/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/main/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilter.java
+++ b/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/main/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilter.java
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ public class VideoDeviceFilenameFilter implements FilenameFilter {
 
 	@Override
 	public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
-		return dir.getName().equals("dev") && name.startsWith("video") && Character.isDigit(name.charAt(5));
+		return dir.getName().equals("dev") && name.startsWith("video")
+                && (name.length() > 5 && Character.isDigit(name.charAt(5)));
 	}
 
 	public File[] getVideoFiles() {
diff --git a/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/test/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilterTest.java b/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/test/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilterTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e5ae4cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webcam-capture-drivers/driver-gstreamer/src/test/java/com/github/sarxos/webcam/ds/gstreamer/impl/VideoDeviceFilenameFilterTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package com.github.sarxos.webcam.ds.gstreamer.impl;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * @author Dan Rollo
+ * Date: 3/8/14
+ * Time: 10:44 PM
+ */
+public class VideoDeviceFilenameFilterTest {
+
+    /**
+     * Accept method was failing with exception: String index out of range: 5
+     * This occurs on opensuse 11 where video device files do not all have a suffix. The files are created like so:
+     * $ ls -l /dev/video*
+     * /dev/video -> video0
+     * /dev/video0
+     *
+     * In this case, the link name 'video' is less that 6 characters long, so the filter statement:
+     * Character.isDigit(name.charAt(5))
+     * causes the exception.
+     *
+     * Fix is to also check for length before checking for isDigit().
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testAcceptHandlesShortVideoDeviceFilename() {
+        final VideoDeviceFilenameFilter videoDeviceFilenameFilter = new VideoDeviceFilenameFilter();
+        assertFalse(videoDeviceFilenameFilter.accept(new File("/dev"), "video"));
+        assertTrue(videoDeviceFilenameFilter.accept(new File("/dev"), "video0"));
+    }
+}